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The ill-fated love affair between charismatic Billy Bigelow, a travelling carnival man, and trusting Julie Jordan, a worker at the local mill.
Ruddigore
Sir Despard Murgatroyd is a man under pressure. He has inherited a witch’s curse forcing him to commit a crime a day or die in agony.
Die Walküre
When the lives of Wotan’s mortal off-spring are threatened, his plans to protect them are thwarted and his favourite daughter defies his will.
Don Giovanni
Dark comedy vies with tense drama, and the beauty and terror of the score are evidence of a supreme musical dramatist at the height of his powers.
Faust
Faust is a man of middle age who has grown tired of life and yearns only for sensual pleasure and for his lost youth. He summons up Méphistophélès, who agrees to grant his desires – but at the price of his eternal soul.
The Makropulos Case
Janáček’s opera is both a mystery thriller and a meditation on immortality and desire. The beguiling, powerfully original score mixes terse drama with glowing lyricism, the everyday with the unearthly.
